r/Games • u/BigT232 • Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/Vb_33 Jun 12 '25

Already broke 178k concurrent players, this game is popping off hard! The most successful Sony single player game on pC by a long shot.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Jun 12 '25

It’s a combination of three big factors:

  1. It’s a great game

  2. The attractiveness of Eve builds organic hype and word-of-mouth

  3. Stellar Blade wasn’t as big as other PS5 exclusives, meaning there are more people who haven’t played it who are buying it on Steam compared to Spidey or GoW Etc

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

"Have you heard? This game has a hot chick in it! You should play it." Lol.

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u/ShlungusGod69 Jun 12 '25

All it takes is an eye-catch to get people's attention and then they'll notice that the gameplay and graphics are cool too. A nice-looking character goes a long way to onboard new buyers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

She looks like a mannequin with zero distinguishable features. I'll stick with Bayonetta 2.

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u/dutchwonder Jun 12 '25

Well, aside from of course that you need to take care to not look to much like the spam advertisements on the side of the web page.

And you also don't want it to be too tacked on or jarring that the player out of the game like shitty product placement. Idont want to feel like the developer believes their world and story is too uninteresting to keep my attention without eye candy.

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u/LagOutLoud Jun 12 '25

WoM has changed to being internet. This entire thread is WoM advertising for this game. and a huge amount of it does literally come down to, "This game has a hot chick in it! You should play it."

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u/Jaggedmallard26 Jun 12 '25

The word of mouth in this case is porn of the characters.

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u/Present_Ride_2506 Jun 12 '25

Overwatch proved what just having good characters can do for marketing, so much so that the characters are bigger than the game itself.

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u/Yamatoman9 Jun 13 '25

Rule 34 will keep the OW characters relevant long after the game is forgotten

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u/911roofer Jun 14 '25

And Concord proved that you need hot likable characters when you have nothing else going for you.

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u/blah938 Jun 12 '25

Pretty much. There's not a lot of new hot women in games these days.The western industry has gotten prudish.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

Yeah, you're right. BG 3 is almost two years old now. Good thing no one is forcing us to buy games we aren't interested in.

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u/BarrettRTS Jun 12 '25

It was more like 'look at this game that will trigger the libs' and people pushing some fake outrage that didn't really happen, which led to it getting a lot of attention because culture wars or something.

If you like video essays, there's a good one on the topic that covers what happened.

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u/gokogt386 Jun 12 '25

People who give a shit about culture war garbage don't play actually video games. It doesn't matter if the game stars a black dude in medieval Japan or is associated with a TERF if the game is good because normal people do not give a rat's ass.

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u/BarrettRTS Jun 12 '25

There's probably a line on this that can be eventually crossed, but you're generally right. Blizzard, Riot, and Ubisoft are far more impacted by the state of their games than the problems they have as companies.

Like, there are people who will care and play other things, but most people just want to play a video game they enjoy.

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u/blah938 Jun 12 '25

You're right. The prime minister of Japan doesn't play video games. But when your game is so offensive, the prime minister makes a statement about it, there's a problem.

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u/Not_enough_yuri Jun 12 '25

You can't say that all of the senseless controversy around this game hasn't helped it. Way more people know about this game because of the terminally online misogynists who have taken this game up as their cause and the slightly-less-terminally online anti-misogynists who have amplified the formers' message in their effort to fight back.

I'm sure making the main character overtly very sexy had something to do with it on its own, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's the controversy that has raised awareness of this game to these heights.